Esther Gray

Brief Life History of Esther

When Esther Gray was born about 1786, in Wayne, Ohio, United States, her father, James Gray, was 21 and her mother, Esther Sabin, was 27. She married Ira Humphrey Aylesworth about 1810, in Big Prairie, Plain Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 11 December 1845, at the age of 60.

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Family Time Line

Ira Humphrey Aylesworth
1786–1861
Esther Gray
1786–1845
Marriage: about 1810
James Aylesworth
1812–
Eunice Aylesworth
1814–1893
Harley Aylesworth
1817–1847
Warren Aylesworth
1820–1889
Emily Aylesworth
1824–1862
Almon Aylesworth
1827–1889

Sources (1)

  • Esther Grey, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.

English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.

French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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